As many here at News Hounds probably know, Nancy Pelosi is proposing a budget for a scientific study into how large a role pop culture plays in violence. If you want my opinion, this is a great idea, because it can give us much needed insight into both the mental health issue and how much (if any) of a role movies and video games play. Unfortunately, on today's Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace didn’t just question the need for such a study, he more or less told her to ditch it and start pressuring her “liberal friends” in Hollywood to, as he put it, “knock it off.”

WALLACE: Gun control will be a big part of the president’s agenda in the State of the Union address Tuesday night. But I want to ask you about another part of the effort to stop these horrible, repeated acts of mass violence. As part of your plan, you call for more scientific research on the connection between popular culture and violence.

We don’t need another study, respectfully. I mean, we know that these video games, where people have their heads splattered, these movies, these TV shows. Why don’t you go to your friends in Hollywood and challenge them, shame them, and say, “Knock it off”?

…(Y)ou have a lot of friends in Hollywood. Why don’t you go to them and publicly say, “I challenge you to stop the video games?”

Pelosi answered, “ I understand what you’re saying. I’m a mother, I’m a grandmother. …But the evidence says that, in Japan, for example, they have the most violent games and the rest, and the lowest death, mortality from guns. I don’t know what the explanation is for that except they may have good gun laws.” She went on to argue that there was more than that “one piece” needed to solve the problem. She added that she also wants to stop sales of assault weapons. “What is the justification for an assault weapon? No further sales of those. No further sales of the increased capacity, 30 rounds in a gun. We are talking about background checks which is very popular, even among gun owners, and, hunters.” She also affirmed her support for both the First Amendment and for the right to own guns.

But Wallace kept pushing. “I think a lot of people say, 'Here it is, liberals like Nancy Pelosi want to go after gun owners. But, when it comes to mental health laws, when it comes to their liberal friends in Hollywood, they don’t want to make them ante up.'”

Pelosi responded, “We certainly have to do more” with regard to mental health laws and she pointed out that the Affordable Care Act will make “many more services available, because of mental health parity.”

“I think we have to do it all,” she said, noting that that includes examining the role of videos and movies. But, she continued, “I don’t think we should do anything anecdotally. We have a saying here—the plural of anecdote is not data. And so, we want to know what is the evidence, what would really make a difference here. And I think it has to be comprehensive."

Pelosi gave Wallace a full palette of issues about gun violence yet all he seemed interested in was pushing her into going after Hollywood. Without even bothering to get any scientific data for doing so.

Yep, Seagal got mouthy with the mob while he was making his CIA claims, and starting talking smack aimed at the crime families. Most of them let him bluster, but some of what he said (and did in movies made during this phase) offended the crap out of the LA branch of the Gambino crime family.

They basically told him that he’s their bitch now, and he owes them so much, plus $150,000 of his pay on every movie for the rest of his career.

@ Aria Prescott: “Remember when he told the mobsters in LA he used to be in the CIA, and that he was gonna take them all out?”

He really said that?

OK, two things:

1. First off, I don’t believe for one second Segal was ever in the CIA — but, even if he was, working for “The Company” is exactly like working in the mob in one aspect: you NEVERACTUALLYADMITTHATYOU DO.

2. Second off, how the hell would’ve being a former CIA agent given Segal any authority? Fighting organized crime is within the FBI’s purview, not the CIA’s — hell, the CIA did some of their best work in COOPERATION with the mob . . .

Oh, and MJ: Segal’s one of the few actors Fox News likes. Mostly because he’s a piece of hyperviolent, ill-tempered trash with an ego that makes O’Reilly look humble.

Remember when he told the mobsters in LA he used to be in the CIA, and that he was gonna take them all out? Kinda funny how he started palling around with the law after he found some of them waiting for him in his living room.

Kinda funnier that none of the Fox News viewers who worship him as Chuck Norris Jr seem to like remembering that. Or that Segal was actually caught on-camera during his reality show saying that he likes working with the police because he can legally hurt people in the right situation.

I dont believe either side has a clue when it comes to violence in video games. Hollywood as NOTHING to do with video games.

Other than tie-ins, licensing, models, voice actors, live actors for FMV/Facial recognition games like LA Noire, and that many TV/Movie writers also write for video games, including that, while the writing team for the “Batman: Arkham” series is headed by a writer on loan from Square-Enix (who make the “Final Fantasy” games), several members are also screenwriters who regularly work with Christopher Nolan.

But nice try.

What violence is FOXGOPTV doing?

Do you want the viewers, or just the hosts? Because I can provide links to both. For an example… remember when Shepard Smith ran hit a woman with his car over a parking space?

Hey, was it you or someone else that that tried to blame a mosque arson on the beer after he said Fox News put the ideas he had about Muslims in his head? How do you feel about the death threats against Imam Rauf from their viewers? The Knoxville shooters? Byron Williams? Fox News viewers also regularly talk about killing Fox News targets- From Bill Maher, to Nancy Pelosi, to Occupiers.

We have screen grabs of all that documented. Prove you can do your own research and look them up.

Steven Seagal, 60, the former action film star who bills himself as “an accomplished actor, musician, martial artist, and philanthropist,” went from Hollywood to Arizona in 2010 to become one of 56 men Sheriff Joe Arpaio swore in as members of his 3,450-strong Freikorps. With him at the time was TV’s “Incredible Hulk,” Lou Ferrigno.

Arpaio, who styles himself as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” enlisted Seagal to train his Maricopa County posse members at a school in Fountain Hills, a suburb northeast of Phoenix, with children used as stand-ins for scared students.

Seagal’s grandiose claim was that, “I am here to try to teach the posse firearms and martial arts to try to help them learn how to respond quicker and help protect our children.”

Seagal’s mantra has been, “They asked me to teach them because they know I know stuff that they don’t know.”

Apparently, one thing Seagal doesn’t know, or care about, is vetting his vigilantes.

[as] ABC/Univision previously noted, according to a local CBS affiliate, some of Arpaio’s posse members have criminal records.Their investigation “uncovered a number of posse members with arrests for assault, drug possession, domestic violence, sex crimes against children, disorderly conduct, impersonating an officer – and the list goes on.”

Wallace doesn’t seem to give proper respect to the free market which LOVES violent movies. But of course gun lovers don’t really want violent movies to disappear—they just know that it is a great tactic to use when the country starts reaching a consensus about assault weapons and high capacity rounds.

But Wallace kept pushing. “I think a lot of people say, ‘Here it is, liberals like Nancy Pelosi want to go after gun owners. But, when it comes to mental health laws, when it comes to their liberal friends in Hollywood, they don’t want to make them ante up.’”
Here’s an example of the people Faux Snoooze uses to get their information. This information comes from “a lot of people say” who might be related to their favorite spokesman “some say”, who’s friends with “it’s been said”.
Chris must have been told to take gun control in another direction as good old boy Wayne was dissapointed.

Before this, Wallace had kudos from me on gun control issues because he was the only host who could hold balanced panels on the issue. No badgering, interrupting or shouting down the pro-control guest. He was also the only host who could be civil in one-on-one interviews with pro-control guests without it seeming forced.

This was a huge disappointment… did he need the Fox Brownie points? Was he just unable to refrain from being ugly to her because Fox? Did he just feel like being an asshole?

Just 2 weeks ago, Sean Hannity was pornorizing guns by inviting some hot looking tart stroking big guns and telling us what her favorite size and caliber was.

Not a day goes by without some stern constipationalist braying about the ebeeel LBURLS coming to castrate you, er, taking away guns from dog fearing upstanding citizens.

Not a day goes by without some a*whole at Fox or the wingnutzphere they feed calling President Obama a tyrant, corrupt, illegitimate, Kenyan, Muslim, socialist, communist, Marxist, ebeel, moocher, trying to turn the country in to Europe.